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TECHNO
* Do not miss the domestic release of KISS MY
ARP (Mo' Wax/Beggars Banquet). This is the first in a series
of recordings made possible by a new partnership between Beggars
Banquet and Mo' Wax. DJ, composer, singer and producer Andrea Parker
mixes deep, trip-hop grooves with film score-style orchestrations.
Her music is dark and evocative. Expect the evening to be one of
unforgettable audiophile electronica. |
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Boukman
Eksperyans
LIVE AT RED ROCKS
Tuff Gong
This is Boukman Eksperyan first live album and is
recorded at the United States' premier outdoor venue, the Red Rocks
amphitheater in Colorado. The ten-piece reggae ensemble calls itself
"vodou roots." Mixing African roots into their big band reggae makes
for powerful and entertaining listening. Lead vocalist Theodore
"Lolo" Beaubrun, Jr. used the event as a platform for expressing
the group's social consciousness. These monologues are preserved
here as introductions to the songs. It is interesting to note the
guitar backbone to this band. Guitarist Maquel Jean-Baptiste cuts
through the layered ethnic percussion with strong leads and hard
rock rhythms. This riff and lead guitar element gives Boukman Eksperyans
more substance than many world music ensembles besides making them
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Tara
Vanflower
I THIS WOMB LIKE LIQUID HONEY
Projekt
Tara Vanflower is a Gothic song stylist. Languidly
and hauntingly she draws out the verses to her songs with much inspiration
from medieval chanting. For example, the title track alternates
between a spoken and chanted delivery over a simple, echoing backing
that suggests high roofed cathedrals. Tara is responsible for all
the sounds and voices we hear on this moody, dark album. She takes
her lyrical content from the Old Testament and psychological imagery
of nightmares and infancy. The album begins the appropriate of the
theme from a children's rhyme. In a scary movie, the isolated rendition
of such a charming tune turns up the creepy factor. So on I THIS
WOMB LIKE LIQUID HONEY the simple melodies that would be endearing
in a nursery school setting take on ethereal and sinister proportions
produced by the icy chanteuse of evil synth pop, Tara Vanflower.
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Papa
Boa
TETE A QUEUE DAME
4508 avenue de Lorimier, Montreal QC, H2H 2B5, Canada
http://www.cam.org/~dame_cd
dame_cd@cam.org
Papa Boa explores the art of noise, and speaks French
while doing it. This art-punk free jazz arises from group improvisation
later torn about and reassembled into a Frankenstein audio collage.
TETE A QUEUE juggernauts about like an unruly creation. Rock-
and R&B-like rhythms emerge in the sometimes-harsh finished product.
Making up the group is guitarist Bernard Falaise (Farniente Salon,
Miriodor), percussionist and wacky brass band drummer Remi Leclerc
(l'Orkestre des Pas Perdus, Miriodor), bassist and keyboardist Frederic
Roverselli and Pierre Labbe on saxes, flutes and didgeridoo. Numerous
guests form the Montrela musique-actuelle scene help out. Salient
in these collaborations is the dulcet voices of actress-singers
Marie-Helene Montpetit and Marie-Jo Therio singing in French. The
juxtapositions of these mellifluous tones in that beautiful language
against the alternating rhythmic or abrasive constructions pull
it together. (4) |
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Wende
Bartley
CLAIRE-VOIE
DIFFUSION i MeDIA, 4487 rue Adam, Montreal, QC H1V
1T9
Wende Bartley has worked alone and creatively in
the electroacoustic field. This Toronto-based composer here presents
pieces composed for female voice and tape. Composed from 1985-1993
these four pieces explore the chthonic, mysterious aspects of the
female psyche centered on phases of the moon. Mezzo-soprano Fides
Krucker features prominently on "Ellipsis" singing, wailing and
summoning the spirits of Selene. Haunting and otherworldly, Bartley's
is a ballet for lithe shadowy figures emerging from the mist. Further
shrouded in disembodied voices caught on the tape, the sisterhood
spins slowly in moonlit ancestral worship. (4.5) |
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Three
Finger Cowboy
HOORAY FOR LOVE
Daemon Records, POB 1207, Decatur, GA 30031 http://www.daemonrecords.com
Three Finger Cowboy is four people having fun with rock and roll.
They are partly Velvet Underground derivative and partly giddy on
indie rock. A squeaky voiced pixie named Katherine McElroy (who
sounds partly like Juliana Hatfield and partly like Moe Tucker)
fronts the group as it romps the rock without fear of cute, they
are proud but not hard. Their fun frolic with rock instruments is
about living a teen dream. Three Fingered Cowboy keep close to a
pure, childish spirit than an FM radio dial. Three Finger Cowboy
is a winner on all counts as the most fun bubblegum garage pop bands
out there. |
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My
Scarlet Life
INFRARED
DivaNation Records, 5602 N. Ridge Rd., Chicago,
IL 60660 http://www.MyScarletLife.com
DivaNation@aol.com
INFRARED is My Scarlet Life's most produced
effort yet. The arrangements are lush, rich in texture and studio
dynamics. The core gems in the sonic jewelry of magnificent artifice
is My Scarlet Life vocalists Julie Axis and Christy C. Smith. Their
harmonies, multi-tracked and ornamented by track-meister Preston
Klik (Big Hat), become a garden of sonic delights. There's no angel
with a flaming sword at these gates, just siren-angels inside, so
come on in and share in a little heaven on earth. (4) |
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Mary
Lee's Corvette
TRUE LOVERS OF ADVENTURE
Wild Pitch Records, 89 Fifth Ave., NYC, NY 10003
http://www.wildpitchrecords.com
http://www.maryleescorvette.com/
Sophisticated wordsmithing and rich instrumentation
have made Mary Lee Kortes an indie pop darling of the press. Tender
ballads about the "Lost Art" of love and rockers like "One More
Sun" feature such poetic lines as "I'm tossing my old emotions/'Cause
I've heard you can't find new oceans." Showcasing these excellent
lyrics are arrangements featuring exotic and subtle percussion,
accordion, piano and other keyboard instruments and cello. Not to
be overlooked is Mary Lee's mellifluous and dulcet voice; a real
shining gem among singer-songwriters. (4) |
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Dominique
Gizelle
DOMINIQUE GIZELLE
Bang On! Records, Bellmore, NY, 1170 http://www.bangonrecords.com
info@bangonrecords.com
One of Dominique Gizelle's gifts is a rich, deep
voice that sounds like an excellent vehicle for the Blues. Dominique
uses this talent to be a Annie Lennox or Rickie Lee Jones of the
indie scene. For female singer-songwriters, I must come across a
dozen new names and releases each week. Dominique stands head and
shoulders above the rest for possessing real vocal ability - awesome
technique and strong, emotional delivery. (4.5) |
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